# Mitigation of Orbital Debris in the New Space Age
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Denial of reconsideration. · Published 2024-02-22 · Effective 2024-02-22 · 89 FR 13276
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-03506
- **Category:** other
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 13276
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 5
- **Publication date:** 2024-02-22
- **Effective date:** 2024-02-22
- **FCC docket:** IB Docket No. 18-313
## Abstract

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) discusses the adoption of an Order on Reconsideration (Orbital Debris Reconsideration Order), which addressed three petitions for reconsideration challenging the orbital debris mitigation rules adopted by the Commission in 2020. In the Orbital Debris Reconsideration Order, the Commission declined to modify, withdraw, or otherwise change the orbital debris mitigation rules adopted in 2020 Orbital Debris Order, published August 25, 2020, but also provided some clarification and guidance as relevant for some of the issues raised in the petitions for reconsideration.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/02/22/2024-03506/mitigation-of-orbital-debris-in-the-new-space-age)
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